Standardization of MSF Agile methodology with the use of ISO/IEC 24744
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https://doi.org/10.31548/zemleustriy2026.02.02Keywords:
ISO/IEC 24744 MSF Agile standardization, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Agile methodologyAbstract
The paper proposes the standardization of the software development methodology MSF Agile. It made by using the metamodel of software development methodologies from the ISO/IEC 24744 standard. Original of MSF Agile named MSF for Agile Software Development and denoted MSF4ASD. MSF4ASD implemented in MSF version 4.0 in 2005 р. in the tool/technology Visual Studio Team System. Therefore, here it is called an example of a specific software development methodology. Without implementation, the methodology exists, but it is better to call a specified generalized MSF methodology with the threat of losing practicality.
Given the topicality of the Agile methodologies, MSF Agile can be a practically useful implementation of the generalized MSF methodology. The specific MSF Agile methodology can be obtained in two ways: 1) two-step specification or 2) standardization with subsequent specification. This article chooses the second way - first, MSF Agile standardized using the development methodologies metamodel from the ISO/IEC 24744 standard. After that, it is easier to perform practically useful specification, since the task becomes typical. Implementation will be possible using various information technologies (IT), including Microsoft IT. The specific methodology can already be directly used in practice.
In the three main sections of this paper: 1) a standardization tool is introduced – the necessary elements of the software development methodologies metamodel from the ISO/IEC 24744 standard are described; 2) information about MSF4ASD is reminded, here simplified to MSF Agile; 3) MSF Agile is presented using the elements of the ISO/IEC 24744 metamodel. This shows how to make MSF Agile a standardized methodology. Then, by one-step reduction, it is possible to obtain a specific methodology that can constructively satisfy the Framework approach and facilitate the transition to Pattern-Based Spatial Engineering.
Received: 27.04.2026;
Accepted: 00.00.2026;
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